Shirey v. Trust Co. of Texas

I feel constrained to construe the article of the statute in hand as supijorting the sufficiency of the abstract in-evidence, although the case of McGlothlin v. Coody (Tex. Civ. App.) 39 S.W.(2d) 133; Id. (Tex. Com. App.) 59 S.W.(2d) 819, would render such abstract, if applied to it, ineffective as a judgment lien.

It is firmly settled that a lien does not arise until the judgment is properly abstracted and indexed in the very provisions of the statute. Nye v. Moody, 70 Tex. 434, 8 S. W. 606; Pierce v. Wimberly, 78 Tex. 187, 14. S. W. 454; Evans v. Frisbie, 84 Tex. 341, 19 S. W. 510; and other…